by June 5, 2006 12:00 am
-Stephens Family Splitting Business
The heirs of Jack and Witt Stephens announced on May 22 that they would be reorganizing the family business into two entities with both separate and joint business interests.
by June 5, 2006 12:00 am
-The heirs of Jack and Witt Stephens announced on May 22 that they would be reorganizing the family business into two entities with both separate and joint business interests.
by June 5, 2006 12:00 am
-A handful of Northwest Arkansas lenders said they?re not looking at the new 50-year mortgage product ? not yet anyway.
by May 22, 2006 12:00 am
-America?s Car-Mart Inc. of Bentonville is using a strong third quarter to recover from an otherwise recent slump. The chain of used-car lots has now expanded to 85 locations throughout eight states and is poised to keep on growing.)
by May 22, 2006 12:00 am
-Your most effective networking asset may be sitting at the desk next to you.
by May 22, 2006 12:00 am
-Bill Putman, a former in-house attorney for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., has left the world?s largest retailer and opened his own firm in downtown Fayetteville.
by May 8, 2006 12:00 am
-New guidelines make it easier for schools to select general contractors for construction management services, rather than having to use a contractor in a competitive bid situation.
by May 8, 2006 12:00 am
-WayLink Systems Corp. of Fayetteville has a solution to detect pavement problems earlier. The company has retrofitted a Ford van with a laser-based digital camera that can detect cracks in the pavement that are almost invisible to the human eye ? cracks a
by May 8, 2006 12:00 am
-The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal ranks the largest architecture and engineering firms by local employees in Washington and Benton counties. PB2 of Rogers ranks No. 1 with 260 employees in 2006, down 8 percent from last year.
by May 8, 2006 12:00 am
-We hear the debit card division of the blue Bentonville banking behemoth is going gangbusters, with Arvest its 29th most active bank customer by debit card sales dollars processed for 2005.
by April 24, 2006 12:00 am
-Many Northwest Arkansas banks use efficiency ratios as a performance barometer, but it?s only one of many. Includes the lists of the region’s largest banks, public and private.
by April 24, 2006 12:00 am
-Without correspondent banking partners, local banks couldn?t make as many large loans as they do. A peak at correspondent banks and how they work.
by April 24, 2006 12:00 am
-Liberty Bank of Arkansas is making its move into Northwest Arkansas? booming market. A look at the bank that Wallace Fowler built.
by April 24, 2006 12:00 am
-Corporate credit cards help banks make money one swipe at a time. But smaller credit card providers must stay competitive with larger credit card providers like Bank of America and MBNA.
by April 24, 2006 12:00 am
-The First National Bank in Green Forest has amassed $381.9 million in assets, continuing a steady growth over the past decade that its CEO says was fueled by a 1994 Arkansas law that allowed banks to branch outside of their home county.
by April 24, 2006 12:00 am
-A year ago, First Security Bank converted the first floor of its 99-year-old building in downtown Springdale into its Multicultural Banking Center, helping immigrants get checking accounts and home loans.
by April 24, 2006 12:00 am
-The old adage ?good help is hard to find? seems to fit the local banking industry. And with the influx of several new and new-to-the-market banks, good help is becoming even harder to keep.
by April 24, 2006 12:00 am
-Tim Yeager, the new associate professor of economics in the University of Arkansas? Walton College of Business, wants to help Arkansas banks manage their interest-rate risk.
by April 24, 2006 12:00 am
-The Payroll Co. of Springfield, Mo., buys AutoTime, a Web-based time-keeping system, from PayTime Inc. of Fayetteville for an undisclosed sum.
by April 24, 2006 12:00 am
-About 12 entrepreneurs, investors and economic development leaders gather in Fayetteville to discuss an action plan for the upcoming Arkansas Venture Forum.
by April 24, 2006 12:00 am
-Rheem Manufacturing Co.?s Air Conditioning Division in Fort Smith partners with ServiceMagic Inc. to provide contractors with real-time Internet leads.